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I would have to see the deed to the property to believe that it includes a mobile home in the legal description. I’ve never seen a deed include improvements of any kind, much less a 12 x 60 trailer. I don’t doubt that the appraisal report included the mobile home in the legal, but I am very skeptical that the deed will include it.
I can't say if it's a legal requirement, but in Louisiana when a manufactured home is immobilized/attached it shows up in the legal description. See below:
do the deeds also mention any type of home or other building that might be constructed? If not, it seems strange that they would go out of their way to include a mobile home. In this area, the assessor will reference them, but there is no addition to a deed.
Can't say I've ever seen anything like "including an 1,800sf residential dwelling and attached garage" in a legal. I'm assuming "...together with all the buildings and improvements thereon..." covers that. FWIW manufactured homes are titled like cars/trucks in La, so there's a legal process to immobilize and attached, I'm guessing including them in the title has something to do with that.
Number one being the unit is a trashed out mess like the one I looked at today. But as for the unit. Is the assingment to value the land or the land and improvements. Just because it has not had a 'converted' title...does that make it personal property? How does the state treat it. My state typically treates it as real property if both the MH and land are on the same parcel card. If they have separate parcel cards then it is personal property, but you can value both separately can't you? What prevents an appraiser from valuing "personal property"? Nothing in my book. BTW, this one I looked at today is on a permanent foundation and is 'real' property.
Most of ours do for MHs, especially in Oklahoma
I looked it up and the appraiser pasted the legal description verbatim from the tax assessment. There are a lot of jurisdictions where a mobile or manufactured home appears in the legal description after it has been affixed to the real estate and converted to real property.
The reason that a lot of jurisdictions do that in cases of mobile and manufactured homes is because otherwise it is not clear whether the manufactured/mobile home is part of the real estate or is chattel. For other types of construction (i.e. a stick-built home), it is usually clear that the building is a part of the real estate.